Women Workers Committee of Labor Union of Hongta Group Launches Activity of “Best Family Study” in 2018

On October 30, the eight-month activity of “Best Family Study” of Hongta Group in 2018 was successfully concluded.

The activity was organized by the Women Workers Committee of Labor Union of Hongta Group. Fifteen “staff’s family studies” such as “Continuing the Fragrance of Books” in Zhao Mingbo’s family of Yuxi Cigarette Factory, “Shi's Interesting Pavilion” in Shi Youjiang’s family of Chuxiong Cigarette Factory and “Three Things Study” in Ma Hongying’s family of Group Office were awarded the “Best Family Study” of Hongta Group in 2018.

This activity is to carry out the report of the 19th CPC National Congress to cultivate and practice socialist core values and deeply implement the nationwide reading activity, promote family civilization construction of the group staff, and build civilized and harmonious families.

In this activity, the Women Workers Committee of Labor Union of Hongta Group and women workers organizations of grass-roots labor unions strengthened the organization and leadership of the activity, combined the activity of “Best Family Study” with the improvement of quality of women workers, the achievement of career and the family civilization construction, and actively organized women workers to participate in the activity. A group of staff’s “Best Family Study” have emerged in the group with good family reading environment, good family reading tradition and prominent family civilization suggestions.

Despite its small size, the study “Shi's Interesting Pavilion” in Shi Youjiang’s family of Chuxiong Cigarette Factory contains more than 400 books on children’s education, health care, home decoration and beautification, philosophy, economics and professional skills development. Every evening after dinner, Shi Youjiang and his wife will make a cup of tea in their study, and select several books they like to read with their son, spending a good time together. The family will usually go to a bookstore at weekends to look for new books that have just come on the shelf. They often stay in the bookstore for a whole afternoon, then buy a few books and take them home for collecting and reading. Since the completion of “Shi's Interesting Pavilion”, reading has added endless joy and interest to Shi Youjiang’s family, and made them grow and progress together in their study: his son Shi Haolin won the first prize in the National Innovation Competition for Middle School Students for his article Why do Plants Sweat; his wife Li Xiaolan won the second prize of “Fragrance of Books on March 8” Essay Competition of Hongta Group in 2018 for her article Books and Life; Shi Youjiang’s articles, such as Effectively Safeguarding the Interests of Workers and Helping the Stable Development of the Group, Investigation and Research on the Ways and Methods of Yunnan Province Federation of Trade Unions to Promote the Construction of Three-dimensional Economic Examination and Supervision System, and Journey to West Lake, were selected and used by the Labor Union of Hongta Group, the Party Construction Department of the factory, etc., or reported to Yunnan Province Federation of Trade Unions for publication.

The study “Continuing the Fragrance of Books” in Zhao Mingbo’s family of Yuxi Cigarette Factory contains six full bookcases and more than 1,300 books, including more than 300 education assistant books, more than 100 reference books, more than 300 literature books and more than 600 children’s books. All the four members of the family like reading, and reading has become a way of their family life. She often said, “There are love, beauty and true meaning of life in books. There are four people in our family. We are happy and harmonious. We use books to build up the love between our family members.” In 2014, Zhao Mingbo’s family was awarded the Harmonious Family in Yunnan Province by Yunnan Province Federation of Trade Unions.

The name of “Three Things Study” in Ma Hongying’s family of Group Office came from a visit made by the whole family. When they visited “Sanwei Bookstore” in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province, they bought a desk set with the words “the three things to use in reading a book -- the eye, the mouth, and the mind”. The couple liked to buy and read books when they were in college. Most of the books in the study were taken from Northeast China to Yunnan because they were reluctant to discard them when they graduated from university. The family of three generations and four people, guided by the concept of “reading more, reading better books” and “books being heirloom”, spend more than 2,000 yuan on books every year.

Family is the cell of society, and study is the place where families can cultivate themselves and inspire their wisdom. Over the years, the Women Workers Committee of Labor Union of Hongta Group has carried out the activity of “Best Family Study” among the vast number of women workers, creating a good family reading environment, promoting family reading, advocating scientific and healthy family education, improving the quality of family members and building scholarly families, so that the fine family tradition of “reading more, reading better books” can be inherited in the staff’s families, thus promoting the family civilization construction of the group staff.